Garage-door holder



Nov. 2 1926.

w. w. BLAKELY GARAGE DOOR HOLDER Filed Oct. 15, 1923 mowtoz Wm [am 11 mane u Patented Nov. 2, 1926.

PAT C WILLIAM WJ'BLA'KEL'Y, or DETROIT, MIdHieAN.

eeneon noon HOLDER.

Application filed Octbber 15, 1923. Serial No, 668,751.

This invention relates to holders for re taining garage doors or other hinged closures in open or partially open position.

The invention consists in employing a bracket or the like to pivotally connect a brace member to a swinging closure, said bracket having a pocket or the like into which the pivotal end portion of a brace member is adjustable to retain said member in a stored position upon the closure.

In the drawings Figure 1 is an edge view of a door equipped with the improved holder disclosing the latter in its position of use;

Figure 2 is a similar view but showing to an enlarged scale the means connecting the bracing member to the door and indicating in dash lines thestored position of the brace member; 7 1

Figure 3 is an interior view of the portion of the door to which'the invention is attached; Y I 1 Figure 4 is a cross section on line 4% of Figure 3 but disclosing the brace member in stored position; I V

Figure 5 is aview ofv the sheet metal blank from which is fashioned the bracket attaching applicants bracing member to the closure. y

In these views the reference character A designates a swinginggarage door or other closure and B is a metal rod forming a brace, which in use assumes an inclination to the door, as best seen in Figure 1, said. rod being pivoted tothe door at one end and engageable at its other extremity with the surface above which the door swings. For connecting said rod to the door there is pref erably employed a bracket O formed froma sheet metal stamping. The upper and the lower end portions C of said bracket lie against the interior face of the door and are engaged by screws D securing the bracket in place. The stamping from which the bracket is formed has opposed openings E just be low its upper portion C, said openings being of an L-shape with downward extensions E between which a neck portion F is formed. Just above the lower end ortion C the bracket has opposed notches in its vertical margins. The neck portion F of the bracket and the portion intermediate the notches G are bent to locate the central portion of the bracket in a lane spaced from that of the end portions 6' and the margins G of said central portion are bent toward the plane of the ends 0. Thus, when the bracket is'secured to a closure as A, a vertically elongated pocket H is formed by the central portion of saidbracket. For pivot-- ally engaging the brace rod B with said bracket an end portion of the rod is bent to, the form of an elongated loop I, which 100 embraces the neck F of the bracket. When the device is not in use the rod B is swung to the vertical position indicated in dash lines in Figure 2 and is then lowered to engage its pivotal end portion-in the pocket H to maintain the rod in inverted position against the door A. The elongation of the loop I permits such vertical movement of the rod Bus is necessary to engage the looped end within said pocket or to withdraw said end therefrom. When in engagement with the pocket H, the brace member is so confined as to securely hold it in. vertical inverted position. It will be noted from Figure 2 that the neck Fis of a gooseneck form, being deflected outwardly somewhat beyond the central portion of the bracket-to produce an a ple space between said neck and the closure A to permit a free pivotal movement of the rod B. Moreover the upper wall F of the neck projects outwardly at substantially right angles to the closure A, hence serves as a shelf on which the converging portions B ofthe rod may rest when in upright position in the pocket II. By forming the opposed openingsE of the bracket with down war-d extensions E, the neck F is elongated to permit fashioning thereof to the desired gooseneck form and the margins of the center portion, which form the sides of the bracket, are extended. upwardly somewhat beyond the center portion of the bracket so a:

as to add somewhat to the pocket H.

length of the The described door holder is adapted for inexpensive manufacture and is quickly, ad-

justable from its position of use to a stored position, in which it is entirely out of the way.

hat I claim as my invention is 1. In a device of the character described, the combination with a hinged closure, of a brace member for holding said closure in an open position, and a bracket on said closure extending through said brace member and having'an elongated pocket for receiving an end portion of the brace memher to maintain a stored position thereof.

2. In a device of the character described,

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the combination with a closure, of a brace member pivotally connected thereto for holding the closure in an open position, and a bracket 011 said closure extending through said brace member, said bracket having a pocket engageable by an end portion of the brace member to maintain a stored position of the latter.

3. In a device of the character described, the combination with a closure, and a brace member for retaining said closure in an open position, of a bracket on said closure extending through said brace member and pivotally engaged by said brace member, said bracket forming a pocket elongated in parallelism to the surface of the closure to which the bracket is secured, the lower end of the pocket being closed for supporting the pivotal end of the brace member the brace member having both a pivotal and a sliding movement relative to said bracket, the latter movement providing for entering the pivotal end of the brace member in said pocket following an upward pivotal movement of the brace member into parallelism with said closure.

at. In a device of the character described, the combination with a closure, of a brace member having a loop portion, and a bracket attaching said brace member to the closure having a neck engaged by said loop, and a pocket adjacent said neck into which the looped portion of the brace member is slidable when said member is pivotally shifted into substantial parallelism with the closure.

In a device of the character described, the combination of a brace member therefor, and a bracket member extending through the brace member and pivotally mounting said brace member upon the closure, said bracket member having a longitudinally extending pocket providing for a downward movement of the brace member in an inverted position of proximity to said door, the lower end of the pocket being engageable by the brace member upon such downward movement thereof to maintain said inverted position.

6. In a device of the character described, the combination with a closure, of a brace member therefor, having a looped pivotal end, a sheet metal stamping secured to said closure and fashioned to form a neck pivotally engaged by the looped end of the brace member, said loop being elongated to provide for a movment of the brace member in substantial parallelism with said door, and means upon said bracket adjacent said neck engageable with the looped portion of the brace member upon such parallel movcment to maintain the parallel relation of the brace member to the door.

7. In a device of the character described, the combination with a closure, of a brace member therefor having a looped pivotal end portion and a sheet metal stamping secured to said closure and fashioned to form a neck engaging in the loop of the brace member to pivot the latter and further fashioned to engage said looped end to hold the brace member in substantial parallelism with the closure upon a predetermined movement of the brace member parallel to the closure.

8. The combination with a closure, of a brace therefor including a rod having a loop portion, and anchorage means for the brace including a bracket on the closure having an open return-bent portion extending upwardly through the loop.

9. The combination with a closure, of a bracket secured to said closure having a portion spaced from the closure and a return bent portion projecting outwardly from the closure above the portion aforesaid, and a brace having an elongated loop at one end pivotally mounted in said return-bent portion and movable longitudinally thereof into the space between said closure and the first mentioned portion of said bracket.

10. The combination with a closure, of a brace rod therefor having an elongated loop atone end, and means on the closure for supporting the brace including a bracket having an open return-bent portion. projecting outwardly from the closure and er;- t-ending through the loop portion, the lower wall of the return-bent portion constituting a pivot bearing for one end of the loop portion, and the upper wall of said return-bent portion constituting a seat for the opposite end of the loop when the rod is in an upright position.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

WILLIAM N. BLAKELY. 

